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Maintel is a UK based business telecom provider which works both in the hardware and software side of the telecommunication business. On the hardware side it provisions telephone equipment sales and maintenance on contract basis. On the software side it offers a portfolio of voice and data services to businesses.

Voip Phone Systems

Maintel’s Business Telephone Systems is aimed towards businesses of all sizes a virtual pbx system without the cost of owning the hardware. Advantages of a hosted pbx system is you get all the features of a pbx system, like call routing, call forwarding, voice-mail to email, IVR on a monthly costly basis.

SIP Trunking

Maintel also provides SIP trunking, an alternative to traditional analogue or ISDN lines. SIP trunking can be created over any existing or new data connection. Maintel assists businesses with estimating bandwidth requirement and creation and maintenance of SIP channels.

NGN

Maintel also offers a variety of voice services like non-geographic-numbers, virtual numbers, analogue and ISDN line rentals.

A NGN(non geographic number) number in UK is like a US toll free number. In the US toll free numbers have a generic area code and hence not tied to any geographic location, NGN numbers are similar, but they aren’t toll free.

Broadband

Maintel’s IP and data services offer a business class broadband service which can then be the foundation to enable their voice related services, vpn or wan services.

Mobile

MaintelMobile offers mobile broadband and mobile email at a very competitive price. Aimed towards businesses Mobile broadband for employees can be used anywhere whether on the road or at home to connect to the internet. Mobile email connects to the company’s mail server and your employees have full access to their company mail accounts 24/7.

About the Company

Its a public company traded on the London and Berlin Stock Exchange.

Maintel operates through two subsidiaries, Maintel Europe Limited and Maintel Voice and Data Limited. Maintel Europe is the  maintenance, and services arm. Maintel Voice and Data is the voice, ip, data services arm.

Get more info about and MainTel Uk here on their web site.

Vopium, a voip based international calling service, lets you make cheap international call from your cell phones without changing providers. When use the vopium service to make calls, you pay regular local rates to the cellular company and the internationa rate to vopium.

Vopium offers country specific calling plans. Its India calling plan offers 750 minutes of calls at $10.16, which makes the calling rate 1.4 ¢/minute, which is a great rate.

But there is a catch. This is a monthly plan, which means you sign up for this monthly service plan and each month you will be billed $10.16 which entitles you 750 minutes every month. The plan is meant for callers with substantial calling need. You will need to use all the 750 minutes in a month, unused minutes don’t rollover to the next month.

If you have lesser calling need, Vopium offers a pay-as-you-go calling plan. For calling India using the pay-as-you-go plan will cost 4¢/minute.

There are other India calling plans, like Pingo, India LD which are cheaper than Vopium, if you have limited calling needs to India.

But if you have substantial calling needs (750 minutes or more each month) Vopium will be cheaper.

Vopium also offers country specific plans for Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries.